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2017
After 100 performances on the road, the new stage adaptation of Fellini’s masterpiece LA STRADA came to THE OTHER PALACE for the final leg of the tour! We’ve rounded up some top cast tweets…
2017
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL opens the first Work in Progress series at The Other Palace later this month and Charlotte Wakefield will lead the cast alongside Jamie Muscato and Liam Doyle. The classic 80's teen movie is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High. This work-in-progress adaptation looks set to be a hit, as do the other shows set to follow...
2017
The first "Live At The Other Palace" has been announced and it's a big one! The new series, curated by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, will kick off this Sunday 23 April 2017 at The Other Palace in London Victoria, with #StageFave Lin-Manuel Miranda "In Conversation". What questions would you ask?
2017
We hope Rhys Jennings and Darren Clark are feeling pretty special today. The pair not only won the first-ever MTI Stiles + Drewe Mentorship Award but their musical today receives a star-studded industry showcase at The Other Palace. When the likes of Clive Rowe, Rebecca Trehearn and Tyrone Huntley (all award winners in their own right) flock to appear in your show, you're doing something right...
2017
We look at what a selection of our Irish #StageFaves are up to this St Patrick's Day. From national tours to Broadway, our Irish performers are a talented bunch. Check out more here...
2017
It’s #InternationalWomensDay and to celebrate we’ve found some fabulous female #StageFave stars with incredible live gigs coming up soon! Take your chance to see these supremely talented West End and Broadway leading ladies in a more intimate setting…
Tony and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik follows up American Psycho with another musical thriller. WHISPER HOUSE, which premieres at The Other Palace in April, boasts a superb cast of West End #StageFaves: Simon Bailey, Nicholas Goh, Simon Lipkin, Niamh Perry and Dianne Pilkington...
2017
In the first of a new "Backstage Jam Live" video series, Michael Watson pays a visit to The Other Palace for a mash-up dressing room session with fellow #StageFaves Victoria Hamilton-Barritt and Ako Mitchell, who play Kate and Eddie in the UK premiere production of THE WILD PARTY...
Opening tonight (20 February 2017), Tony Award winner Frances Ruffelle leads the cast as Queenie in the UK premiere of Michael John LaChiusa’s musical version of THE WILD PARTY. Our friends at Musical Theatre Review talked to Frances about party preparations during rehearsals and how she feels about her career to date...
2017
Broadway legend Lillias White makes her London stage debut in THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN', the concert show celebrating - and radically reinterpreting - the music of jazz icon Fats Waller, which comes to The Other Palace studio in April...
2017
It’s Part Two of our countdown of great new musicals coming to London in 2017! Spring is approaching, the days are getting longer, holidays and chocolate are on the horizon and there’s even more to add to your #YearofTheatre. Here are some #StageFaves shows we’re looking forward to seeing this March and April…
2017
#BlueMonday became HAMILTON DAY as priority list tickets for the London production went on sale. We just can’t ‘Wait For It’! Public booking opens on 30th January so there’s still a chance to get yours if you forgot to sign up to the priority list. And there are still lots of other great musicals to see in London before HAMILTON comes along. We’ve made a list of some of our favourites for you to put in the diary. Make 2017 your #YearofTheatre! We're starting with Part One: The First 11. That's how many great musicals we've found for you to enjoy in January and February 2017!
Producer Paul Taylor Mills and director Luke J Sheppard reunite for the first time since their Olivier Award-winning success with In the Heights for the British premiere of MURDER FOR TWO, which is the inaugural production in the soon-to-be-renamed The Other Palace Studio (currently the St James Studio)...
2016
There are SO many fantastic #StageFaves announced to join Frances Ruffelle in Michael John LaChiusa's THE WILD PARTY, we hardly know where to start - Donna McKechnie, John Owen Jones, Simon Thomas, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Tiffany Graves, Ako Mitchell, Lizzy Connolly and more. Safe to say: the rebranded The Other Palace is launching in stellar style...
Following The Wild Party and Whisper House, the third offering in The Other Palace inaugural season is a world premiere musical stage adaptation of Fellini's Oscar-winning Italian film masterpiece LA STRADA. It comes to London after a 16-week national tour, directed by Sally Cookson. Full details and ensemble cast now announced here...
"A role she was born to play," said a Twitter fan about the casting of Frances Ruffelle in The Other Palace's inaugural offering: the first major London production of Michael John LaChiusa's gin-soaked 2000 Broadway musical THE WILD PARTY. We couldn't agree more. Plus, the production is directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie. Pure class....
We can hardly contain ourselves with excitement over today's news about the St James Theatre's rebirth as 'The Other Palace'. Under the ownership of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the artistic direction of Paul Taylor Mills, this is undoubtedly a new mecca for musical lovers. We think #StageFaves fans will be spending an inordinate amount of time here in the months and years to come. It officially launches in February 2017 and the inaugural season is announced today...